Data Protection Essentials

What the regulation actually requires of the people handling personal data day to day — written for staff, not for lawyers.

Lessons
9
Length
1h 37m
Level
Beginner
Access
Lifetime

What you will cover

3 modules · 9 lessons · 1h 37m · 1 free to preview

What counts as personal data3 · 28m
  • Identifiers you would not expectFree preview9m
  • Special category data in practice11m
  • Pseudonymised is not anonymous8m
Lawful bases, chosen properly3 · 36m
  • Choosing a basis before you process12m
  • Why consent is usually the wrong answer10m
  • Legitimate interests: the balancing test14m
When something goes wrong3 · 33m
  • The first hour after a breach13m
  • What the regulator expects to see11m
  • Telling people badly, and telling them well9m

About this course

Most data protection training is a summary of the legislation. This is not that. Every module starts from a decision somebody in your organisation has to make this week: whether to send that spreadsheet, how long to keep the recording, what to do in the first hour after a laptop goes missing.

Assessed against the same scenarios your auditors use.

What learners say

★★★★★ 4.0 · 3 reviews

★★★★★

Strong content, assumes a UK and EU reader

We operate in three jurisdictions and the examples lean heavily on one of them. Nothing in it is wrong for us, but our Singapore team needed supplementary material.
Hannah Weiss
★★★★★

Staff stopped treating it as a box to tick

The scenario assessments are the difference. People argue about the answers in the office afterwards, which is not something I have ever been able to say about compliance training.
Jan Vosloo
★★★★★

The versioned records answered a question our last provider could not

We were asked at audit to produce what a specific member of staff had been taught in 2023, not what the course says today. Being able to produce that in an afternoon is the whole reason we moved.
Ruth Okonjo

Your instructor

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Helena Mbeki

Meridian Compliance Institute